Question

Can someone please explain step by step...
The furniture in a dollhouse was designed on a 1:30 scale of the original furniture. If an original bed measured 5 feet by 8 feet, what are the measurements of the bed in the dollhouse?

Answer 1

So this ratio means that the dollhouse furniture is 30 times smaller than the original furniture...

So if the original was 5 by 8

The new will be

\[\large \frac{5}{30} \text{by} \frac{8}{30}\]

Answer 2

What is my next step?

Answer 3

Just to divide them

\[\large \frac{5}{30} = \space ?\]
and
\[\large \frac{8}{30} = \space ?\]

Answer 4

5 divided by 30?

Answer 5

Correct